Not too way back this yr, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been embroiled in a harsh authorized battle with competing defamation claims. On the coronary heart of the battle have been claims of home abuse, with both sides accusing the opposite of assaults. The case stirred intense public curiosity with innumerable articles, TikTok movies, and suppose items concerning who was proper or wrongm or what proof was legitimate or not. However the coronary heart of the matter remained home violence, which is unacceptable in any regard.
Someway, home abuse has turn out to be a dressing up for Halloween this yr, with Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly dressing up as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, with one picture even depicting his hand round her neck, and the caption, “However are these even costumes.”
Yesterday, Lexus Amanda, who has been relationship and residing with Pasquale Rotella, founder and CEO of Insomniac Occasions, posted a photograph on Instagram of the 2 of them of their Halloween costumes, dressed as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, full with make-up on Lexus round her eyes and lips, implying she’d just lately been “overwhelmed” and was bruised.
Already this can be a tasteless and unsuitable selection, however given the current publicity of many alleged abusers and individuals who have allegedly dedicated sexual abuse inside our personal digital music scene, dressing up in a dressing up to make a joke of home violence exhibits he’s egregiously unattached to the scene which he claims to raise up and promote.
The costume started gaining traction on Twitter early this morning, calling it “indicative of how deeply the roots of sexism and misogyny run in dance music.” It’s quickly gaining consideration on social media, though Lexus has already deleted the picture from her Instagram feed.
Feedback on Lexus’ publish appeared overwhelmingly constructive and in assist of the costume, although just a few have been very clearly calling her out for the tasteless stand up. Though, as many as popped up, they appeared to vanish simply as rapidly, main us to consider feedback have been actively being deleted.
Within the quote tweets on Twitter, most are echoing the sentiment that the costume is tasteless and expressing that home violence shouldn’t be a joke, even in a state of affairs during which such a case was coated by the media advert nauseam.
Pasquale Rotella and his accomplice making gentle of IPV with their tasteless selection to decorate up as Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is indicative of how deeply the roots of sexism and misogyny run in dance music. sexual assault and home violence is a joke to those individuals. a dressing up. pic.twitter.com/bfatuNJcTJ
— staley (@stalesmcgalesss) November 1, 2022
I really like dance music tradition however the stage of assault, sexism, and misogyny on this trade is wild.
IDC what your stance is on the trial, however making a mockery of home violence isn’t a laughing matter. Absolute trash @PasqualeRotella 🐸☕️ https://t.co/P5pksn4YBX
— kimberly (@kimmyhendrixx) November 1, 2022
Other than this simply being a shitty costume thought in each attainable method, the utter lack of social consciousness to do that with what’s been happening within the EDM scene this previous month is simply subsequent stage silly. Like, WTF are you doing? https://t.co/uobII0uDXF
— Zoat (@zwcampo) November 1, 2022
Rattling, fairly tasteless for positive.
Like out of all of the issues you might costume up as and select that is fairly bizarre tbh. https://t.co/kJfuAMyMOe— Kelly (82%) (@momma_kellz) November 1, 2022
Your EDM has reached out to each Insomniac and Stay Nation with requests for remark. A consultant for Insomniac confirmed receipt of the request, although we’ve got not but obtained any response from Stay Nation. We are going to replace the article if that adjustments. Neither Lexus nor Pasquale have but acknowledged the criticism to their costume, other than Lexus deleting the picture.
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